Thursday's Sound Off

State Rep. Painter, I read the article in which you suggest that without increased state appropriations local school district property taxes go up. I see The Mercury article indicating every school district got an increase in excess of the rate of inflation and property taxes still go up. School districts spend what they choose to spend. That’s the bottom line. When are you going to get involved in real serious property tax reform? You were elected to do that.

Here we go again, get your mind off the IRS. The president’s taking a vacation and we’re paying $100 million for him and his family to go to Africa. I wish we would get paid when we go on vacation. He’s already getting his pay plus it’s costing us. Too bad it’s not a one-way trip.

RALPH KRAMDEN, BUS DRIVER FROM SANATOGA

Folks who wonder about makers of American flags, my old boss makes thousands every year in his factory on Colebrookdale Road, made special flags for 9/11 and shipped millions to New York. There is a patriotic flag maker in our locale.

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JOAN HERBST

To the person complaining about the car shows on High Street, they are the best car shows they ever had. If you’re not interested in cars, stay home.

POTTSTOWN

This is just a thought about the Pa. House budget and the increases going to the school district, those percentages are more than the people living off Social Security got in the last four years so I say enough is enough. Time to cut the school budget.

How we define big government has a lot to do with your affiliation. If you are a Republican, your view of big government is totally different from those of a Democrat. The Republican views pertain to the government’s ability to close the gap between the have and the have nots. On the other hand, the Democratic view of big government is a government that caters to the very rich with no regard for the people who have made this country what it is today.

K.M.

We see in the press and the media, the cat is out of the bag. The government has been spying on all of our phone numbers for years. Since they’ve been so careful to spy on us and we already know that the cell phone numbers allow them to track us, it should be no problem for the federal government to round up all the illegal aliens in the country and ship them out of here. We don’t need any amnesty, we need them out of here and that’s it.

The tea party’s ad about government control and nutrition is ridiculous. It shows this heavy woman pushing a shopping cart saying nutrition isn’t the government’s business. Hasn’t she ever heard about the purpose of the USDA and FDA of setting standards? Well, who should be setting standards? Give me a break.

Got the mail the other day and there was none and the next day, it was stuffed. I guarantee I got two days worth of mail in one day’s delivery. So to my post person, thanks, really appreciate your off and on service.

It’s spring time now and all of us who share ponds and waterfalls in our backyards all have the same issue with heron. I have a 100 percent guarantee deterrent. Find a hardware store, Target, etc. that sells plastic herons. Put it in your pond, move it every couple of weeks and no problem.

IT’S COOL TO CARE ANIMAL RESCUE

Here’s a chuckle for you people who want a laugh instead of politics and religion discussed all the time in Sound Off. When I was a kid there was an organization that worked in our township made up of men living in the township called WPA. They too looked like they were only standing around with shovels. Us kids used to call them “We Poke Along.” Maybe we should reinstate that organization again according to what you saw at King Street and Route 100.

HAVE A CHUCKLE

This is a shout-out to all those who prayed for that little girl in the Philadelphia hospital and to U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey for all he did to get this little girl a pair of lungs. I can see where people care. But when it comes to our federal government, they do not care. This is a prelude to Obamacare because our medical procedures are going to be in the hands of bureaucrats, not our doctors, so we gotta do something. Now let’s pray that Obamacare gets waylaid.

Spring-Ford says they need a backhoe. The taxpayers are the ones who will wind up with the big hole in their pockets paying for it.